(Washington, D.C. — Aug. 31, 2026) The Federal Laboratory Consortium for Technology Transfer (FLC) rolled out Ask the FLC Experts, a new tool for getting answers to technology transfer (T2) questions from the practitioners who actually know them. Ask the FLC Experts is a discussion forum where technology transfer (T2) practitioners and partners can ask questions, find information, and contribute to the knowledge exchange among experts and peers.
The Ask the FLC Experts discussion boards are located in FLC's eGroups community and are open to anyone with an FLC login, which is free and easy to create on the consortium's website. To start, log in or create an account, click on the "Ask the FLC Experts" button, and request to join.
Ask the FLC Experts will include forums in five categories:
Each category is paired with designated FLC Experts — T2 leaders from federal agencies and private industry — who help ensure questions are answered by people who've solved the problem before. FLC members are also encouraged to navigate through the forum threads and offer their own tips, experience, and how-tos. Ask the FLC Experts is designed to put a direct answer within reach for questions T2 professionals previously solved alone, replacing one-off emails and phone calls to a handful of contacts with a searchable record the whole community can draw on.
"College degrees in technology transfer exist, but federal professionals almost never start there," says FLC Executive Director Paige George. "They typically begin as scientists, engineers, business specialists, or marketers and enter the field through many different paths. That's why knowledge lives with the people doing the work and is shared peer to peer. Ask the FLC Experts turns that hard-won expertise into something searchable and permanent, so no one coming up in federal technology transfer has to learn everything the hard way."
About the FLC: The FLC is a formally chartered, nationwide network of more than 300 federal laboratories, agencies, and research centers that foster commercialization best practice strategies and opportunities for accelerating federal technologies from out of the labs and into the marketplace. To learn more, visit federallabs.org.